Internship fee poll

YOUR VOICE: Should Architecture Colleges waive the internship semester fee?

Share your opinion on the unpaid internship in architecture offices.
Internship fee poll

We recently raised the issue of unpaid architectural internship, which sparked a flurry of comments from the architecture fraternity. One of the ideas put forth by several people is for architecture schools to waive the fee during the internship semester to compensate for the intern’s stipend.

Do you agree?

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